From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261660AbUBVDAJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:00:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261659AbUBVDAJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:00:09 -0500 Received: from MAIL.13thfloor.at ([212.16.62.51]:57473 "EHLO mail.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261656AbUBVC76 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:59:58 -0500 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 03:59:57 +0100 From: Herbert Poetzl To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Mikael Pettersson , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 Message-ID: <20040222025957.GA31813@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , Mikael Pettersson , Kernel Mailing List References: <16435.14044.182718.134404@alkaid.it.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 07:47:21AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > > > What about naming? IA-64 is taken, AMD64 is too specific, Intel's > > "IA-32e" sounds too vague, and I find x86-64 / x86_64 difficult to type. > > "x64" perhaps? > > x86-64 it is. Maybe you can remap one of your function keys to send the > sequence ;) > > This whole "ia32" crap has always been ridiculous - nobody has _ever_ > called an x86 anything but x86, and Intel is just making it worse by > adding random illogical letters to the end. > > In contrast, x86-64 tells you _exactly_ what it's all about, and is what > the kernel has always called the architecture anyway. hmm, so the current x86_64 will be changed to x86-64 or will there be x86_64 and x86-64? probably I missed something important, but AMD64 seems to be labeled x86_64 in 2.4 and 2.6 # ls linux-2.4.25/arch/ alpha/ cris/ ia64/ mips/ parisc/ ppc64/ s390x/ sh64/ sparc64/ arm/ i386/ m68k/ mips64/ ppc/ s390/ sh/ sparc/ x86_64/ # ls linux-2.6.3/arch/ alpha/ cris/ ia64/ mips/ ppc64/ sparc/ v850/ arm/ h8300/ m68k/ parisc/ s390/ sparc64/ x86_64/ arm26/ i386/ m68knommu/ ppc/ sh/ um/ TIA, Herbert > Linus > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/